The Esoteric Philosophy And Seven Fold Way Of Anton Long - A Debate

Desertam Indefensamque? There has been much private debate in recent months among some Adepts of the esoteric
tradition developed by the pseudonymous Anton Long, and known among those Adepts by the appellation Order of
Nine Angles 1, as to whether or not and in public that tradition should be abandoned and undefended by them given
their own pathei-mathos and the torrent of accusations levelled since 2018 against what others have described as a
group or organization named "the order of nine angles" or "O9A".

These accusations were propagated by antifascist groups and individuals, by some politicians, and by some journalists,
and have resulted in requests by such groups and such politicians that the British government proscribe the "O9A"
because they believe it to be a group or organization which incites terrorism, which has members convicted of
terrorism offences, and which is also alleged to incite such dishonourable things as rape, paedophilia, and misogyny.

These Adepts of that esoteric tradition, who are primarily based in the United Kingdom, are of the opinion that such
accusations were the result of a disinformation campaign by an American agent provocateur paid by the FBI 2 and
which disinformation was believed by antifascist groups and individuals, by some politicians, and by some journalists
who often in a propagandistic manner embellished such disinformation and who either did not bother to do their own
research using primary sources such as the writings of Anton Long, or having done some minimal research ignored
what was written in favour of their own prejudicial assumptions about that esoteric tradition, one of which was that the
appellation Order of Nine Angles referred to a group or organization with members.

The debate among the Adepts did not concern such requests for a group called by such propagandists the Order of
Nine Angles to be proscribed, since those Adepts were of the opinion: (i) that the O9A was a philosophy, not a group
with members and which philosophy or esoteric tradition was manifest, presenced, in a practical way by the
individualistic quest for Lapis Philosophicus - for wisdom 3 - and described by Anton Long's Seven Fold Way, and (ii)
that the esoteric tradition with its Seven Fold Way could only be realistically taught, and learnt, in private as had
occurred since the 1980s. This generational, individual, mostly covert transmission meant that attempts to declare the
O9A illegal, a terrorist group, and ban its literature were irrelevant, as would be making membership a criminal
offence.

Instead, the debate concerned three related matters.

1. One of the foundations of the esoteric philosophy devised by Anton Long was and is its anarchical - or as some
would write and say its nihilistic - principle of the authority of individual judgment 4 which in practice means that
anyone is free to interpret that philosophy and implement it in their own individual way and thus devise their own
praxis or praxises to implement or presence it. Deriving from that foundational principle is the fact that there is not,
never has been, and cannot be any leader and thus no one who can make any rules or state what is the correct,
authorized, interpretation or implementation, not even Anton Long himself. The principle also means one other thing:
that there is not and cannot be some Adept, some cabal or some "inner circle of Adepts" who can make rules or state
what is the correct, authorized, interpretation or implementation.

Hence there is no "official" - correct - interpretation of Anton Long's philosophy and no "official" - correct, authorized -
implementation or praxis of that philosophy. No official, authorized nexions, cells, temples, or chapters. 5 No official,
authorized statements or press releases; no official, authorized book(s), treatise(s), or texts; and in this internet age,
no official, authorized, websites, blogs, zines, social media accounts, or whatever.

While there have been, in the past two years or so, many published texts, essays and even books by various Adepts to
explain that the disinformation concocted by an FBI-paid agent provocateur, as well as the accusations and claims
made regarding Anton Long's philosophy, are false, malicious, and unsupported by Anton Long's writings, 6 these
explanations - because of the principle of the authority of individual judgment - have no ultimate authority and
therefore can be judged by both supporters and opponents of Anton Long's philosophy as just a particular
interpretation of that philosophy.

The consensus was that an insider, an adept, interpretation of that philosophy is:

(i) that the appellation Order of Nine Angles refers to an esoteric tradition, a philosophy, which has over
decades become a sub-culture which individuals can identify with, and does not refer to a group or
organization which has or which recruits members;

(ii) that since it is a philosophy it has no leader or leaders;

(iii) that implicit in that philosophy and in the writings of Anton Long are certain ethical boundaries; 7

(iv) that the actions and beliefs and attitudes of some of those who according to antifascists and others may
have been influenced by Anton Long's philosophy are dishonourable and incompatible with that philosophy.

2. That while over the past forty years the anarchic-nihilistic principle of the authority of individual judgment has
contributed to the transmission of Anton Long's esoteric philosophy mainly in the lands of the West but also in some
non-Western lands, and led to the creation of nexions, cells, temples, and chapters around the world describing
themselves as "O9A", it has also contributed to diverse interpretations of Anton Long's philosophy and to diverse
practical implementations of that philosophy, with some nexions producing their own literature about their
interpretation and practical implementation of that philosophy.

This has led to the situation that now exists in regard to (a) what-is and what-is-not "O9A" philosophy and praxis, (b)
who is and who is not "O9A", and (c) to various interpretations and mis-interpretations of or disinformation about the

"O9A" influencing certain individuals to do deeds which the Adept interpretation of Anton Long's philosophy describes
as dishonourable and incompatible with that philosophy.

3. The matter of the collective pathei-mathos, the learning from experience, which, for those Adepts, resulted from
their individual quests for Lapis Philosophicus by means of Anton Long's Seven Fold Way. When compared, it was
obvious, as Anton Long himself predicted, 8 that it changed their perception of many aspects of Anton Long's
philosophy including the practices of the Seven Fold Way with all but one of the Adepts regarding many of those
aspects as unnecessary for or incompatible with or no longer relevant in respect of an individual esoteric quest for
Lapis Philosophicus.

Among such aspects discovered by pathei-mathos to be unnecessary, incompatible, or no longer relevant were:

(i) the games, deceptions, and the trickery presenced by Anton Long's Labyrinthos Mythologicus;
(ii) Occult rituals and ceremonies in general, and all types of sorcery;
(iii) Insight Roles;
(iv) the causal abstractions and dialectic involved in supporting or using for whatever reason political forms such as
National Socialism;
(v) Satanism, however defined or presenced;
(vi) the complexity of Anton Long's labyrinthine esoteric philosophy;
(vii) the goal of seeking to presence a New Aeon and to change what-is - such as society or societies - by any means
including but not limited to means which are or which can classified as political, religious, ideological, social,
mythological or Occult.

The consensus was that a modern individual quest, the ἄνοδος, for Lapis Philosophicus is an interior one concerned
with the individual learning through a non-political, non-religious, way by various and mostly practical experiences
some of which involve an isolation from the world, physical and intellectual challenges, and a period or periods of
contemplation of Nature by a living in a rural environment for a certain period or periods.

°°°

The conclusion reached as a result of the debate, with one dissenter, was that in respect of Anton Long's labyrinthine
esoteric philosophy and his Seven Fold Way, and with the foundational principle of the authority of individual
judgement meaning that their agreed interpretation has no authority whatsoever: Desertam Indefensamque, and thus
that they should present overtly, or covertly and individually, a new ἄνοδος for Lapis Philosophicus derived from their
own or their collective pathei-mathos devoid of what was enumerated above as unnecessary, incompatible, or no
longer relevant for such a modern and mystical quest.

KS & The Seven Oxonians

30 November 2021 ev
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1) For the purpose of this text an Adept is considered to be someone who has successfully undertaken the Grade Ritual
of Internal Adept according to Anton Long's Seven Fold Way. Regarding that Way, refer to The Seven Fold Way Of The
Order Of Nine Angles: A Modern Practical Guide in The Seofonfeald Paeth, https://archive.org/download/o9a-trilogy-
print/o9a-trilogy-print.pdf

2) Refer to:
(i) Urban Myth Of The Occult Phantom Menace,  https://archive.org/download/urban-myth-o9a-v7/urban-myth-o9a-
v7.pdf
(ii) The Anti-O9A Misinformation Campaign in The Order of Nine Angles (O9A) Side Of The Story, https://archive.org
/download/o9a-side-of-story/o9a-side-of-story.pdf

Regarding how much the FBI agent provocateur was paid:

(i) https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046907/kaleb-cole-august-13-2021-motion-to-suppress.pdf 
(ii) https://nypost.com/2021/08/26/fbi-funded-neo-nazi-book-publisher-court-docs-reveal/  
(iii) https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/fbi-paid-over-100000-to-neo-nazi-for-insider-info-report-677938

3) As described in The Hebdomian Way, https://sevenoxonians.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/hebdomian-way-rs.pdf

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Lapis Philosophicus refers to that which is sought by means of an individual hermetic (esoteric, alchemical)
quest: which is Wisdom, whereby Wisdom is meant a balanced, rational, personal judgement and a particular
knowledge of a paganus kind concerning livings beings, human nature, Nature, the Cosmic Order (κόσμος)
and our connexion to such manifestations of the μονάς.

As a term Lapis Philosophicus means the "jewel of the alchemist", since the term Philosophicus means an
alchemist and not, as is commonly said, a philosopher, just as lapis (qv. λίθος τῶν σοφῶν) when used in
Latin alchemical texts means "jewel" and not "stone".

For Hermetic tradition relates that λίθος as a jewel, or precious stone, was attested by Herodotus, who in 
The Histories, Book II, 44, wrote, in reference to "the sacred Temple of Heracles", ἣ δὲ σμαράγδου λίθου
λάμποντος τὰς νύκτας μέγαθος.

It was possibly used in the same way by Aristotle who wrote, in reference to the Nine Archons, ἀναγράψαντες
δὲ τοὺς νόμους εἰς τοὺς κύρβεις ἔστησαν ἐν τῇ στοᾷ τῇ βασιλείῳ καὶ ὤμοσαν χρήσεσθαι πάντες. οἱ δ ̓ ἐννέα
ἄρχοντες ὀμνύντες πρὸς τῷ λίθῳ κατεφάτιζον ἀναθήσειν ἀνδριάντα χρυσοῦν, ἐάν τινα παραβῶσι τῶν
νόμων: ὅθεν ἔτι καὶ νῦν οὕτως ὀμνύουσι. Athenian Constitution, 7.1

Also, as noted in English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language by S. C. Woodhouse,

published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1910, the term λίθος describes a jewel, as in Plato: ὧν καὶ τὰ ἐνθάδε
λιθίδια εἶναι ταῦτα τὰ ἀγαπώμενα μόρια, σάρδιά τε καὶ ἰάσπιδας καὶ σμαράγδους καὶ πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα:
ἐκεῖ δὲ οὐδὲν ὅτι οὐ τοιοῦτον εἶναι καὶ ἔτι τούτων καλλίω. Phaedo 110 δ-ε
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4) Refer to The Authority Of Individual Judgement: Interpretation And Meaning in The Seofonfeald Paeth,
https://archive.org/download/o9a-trilogy-print/o9a-trilogy-print.pdf

5) Such causal manifestation of the ethos of Anton Long's philosophy - such as forming or joining a nexion or cell - are
one of tasks of the External Adept.

6) Refer to  The Writings Of Anton Long in The Order of Nine Angles (O9A) Side Of The Story, https://archive.org
/download/o9a-side-of-story/o9a-side-of-story.pdf

7)  Regarding boundaries and ethics in Anton Long's philosophy refer to Boundaries Of Order Of Nine Angles
Philosophy, https://archive.org/download/o9a-boundaries-philosophy-v5_202111/o9a-boundaries-philosophy-v5.pdf

8)

"For the ONA, what matters is the individual developing, from their own years-long (mostly decades-long)
practical experience, a personal weltanschauung: that is, discovering their own individual answers to certain
questions concerning themselves, life, existence, the Occult, and the nature of Reality."
Anton Long, The Discovery and Knowing of Satan, https://web.archive.org/web/20111129112554/http:
//antonlong.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/the-discovery-and-knowing-of-satan/

"I claim no authority, and my creations, profuse as they are, will in the end be accepted or rejected on the
basis of whether they work. Satan forbid they should ever become 'dogma' or a matter of 'faith'. I also
expect to see them become transformed, by their own metamorphosis and that due to other individuals:
changed, extended and probably ultimately transcended, may be even forgotten. They – like the individual I
am at the moment – are only a stage, toward something else." 
Satanic Letters of Stephen Brown, letter to Michael Aquino, dated 20th October 1990 ev, https://archive.org
/download/satanicletters-1/satanicletters-1.pdf
"Each individual develops their own unique perspective and insight as a consequence of striving to achieve
Adeptship – a perspective and insight which derives mainly from practical experience, both magickal and
personal."
Letter to Michael Aquino, dated 7th September 1990 ev, https://archive.org/download/satanicletters-
1/satanicletters-1.pdf

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